Quotes about competence

Your confidence kills your fears when they appear. Your competence makes them not to appear at all. Be bold do it.

You have abundant dexterity and the power to do such wonderful things in you and it is only you who can bring out the marvelous works within to reality to the awesome amazement of all. You shall always think about them and they shall always be within you until you take steps to make them happen in reality. Awake and do something!

Complements from your companion will do you no good, but if you get complements from your competitors it means you are really doing good.

Let it be a small gain or big gain never do lesser than one's ability, let it be a pain or a pleasure never accept more than one's share.

When the competent men of the system are compelled to quit, the system will soon quit itself.

I Love You! Three words that mean nothing if not followed through with actions. It seems to be more relevant in the terms of showing verses saying. Anyone can say it, because there are different kinds of love. But, few are willing to actually show it. Saying is one thing. Living proof is another.

Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt

Our competence comes from God's grace.

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.

Kevyn, I'm promoting you from Tech Sergeant to Munitions Commander. I want you to take responsibility for all Company weapons.Munitions Commander? Why me?I don't know. Call it "suspicion of extreme competence" on my part.-Captain Tagon & Commander Kevyn Andreyasn

Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as their guardians. It is so easy not to be of age. If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a physician who decides my diet, and so forth, I need not trouble myself. I need not think, if I ca

In leadership, skills may take you where character won't keep you.

The specialty in all life is expecting the exception, while ignorant of real acceptance, until unexpectedly you re-witness your own ignorance to 'be' the cause that awakens others. One does not do this yesterday, or today. You do this with expressing honesty everyday.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Don’t let any situation intimidate you, defeat you, or conquer you. you are stronger and smarter than anything that challenges you.

Many people spend more time looking at their failures than focusing on their successes.

Don’t blame others. it won’t make you a better person.

Becoming a great leader doesn’t mean being perfect. it means living with your imperfections.

Do not allow your inner doubts to keep you from achieving what you can do.

When your intuition is strong, follow it.

Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act decisively without needing to know why.

Don’t set your own goals by what other people make important.

Focus on how far you have come in liferather than looking at the accomplishments of others.

Self-assurance reassures others and reassures yourself.

Greatness means setting out to make some difference somewhere to someone in someplace.

Leaders empower individuals by building trust and coaching competence in their job roles and networking skills.

Your driver is on the steer, driving you and you can feel free to doze in the car; this is trust built on competence. Competence is to ensure that your actions put people's hearts at ease when things are in your hands.

It seems that the more we learn about our work, the easier and the more interesting it becomes to us. Tasks that used to be tedious now make sense, and we see how they're related to other elements of our jobs. Plus, they're easier to take care of now, so they don't bother us nearly as much when we need to do them. When we know more about our work and its ramifications, we can see the connections between what we do and the effects that those things have on other people.

The cost of a range of appropriate courses and training activities is much less than the cost of incompetence.

You understand how much you know about a subject the moment you give explanations to someone who doesn't know anything about it.

When all help is stopped, when your loved ones started doubting your competence, when failure seems almost confirmed, but no matter what, if you make one more attempt, that final step will fetch you the victory.

Humility and competence are the keys to a successful life.

So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.

The technique of tredding the success path is making a single step, and if you are kinda afraid to throw the second leg, hire divinity to pull you along.

It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitu

. . to be exceptional in martial arts, you must possess the "4 C's" : Consistency, Commitment, Creativity and Competence

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

We pass judgements as to merits in areas we have no competence

She remembered Fiona saying something once, there was nothing more attractive than a competent man. At the time she'd been a young girl, without true understanding, but now she agreed.

Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.

All too often people pretend to be professional. "Professionalism" is sometimes a facade for fraud. Be pro, but be real. Honesty and transparency combined with character, competence and real results is the key to being a true pro.

Power of productivity is not in working but relaxing

The journalist Walter Lippmann identified in Henry Ford, for all his peculiarity, a common strain of "primitive Americanism." The industrialist's conviction that he could make the world conform to his will was founded on a faith that success in economic matters should, by extension, allow capitalists to try their hands "with equal success" at "every other occupation." "Mr. Ford is neither a crank nor a freak," Lippmann insisted, but "merely the logical exponent of American prejudices about wealt

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

They looked more like day laborers than seamen.

Pride in office without competence is as much a sin as competence without confidence.

Ladies and gentlemen, when you paint your lips, eyes, nails, hair, side-beards, or whatever, to look beautiful or handsome, don't forget your up stairs, if you don't go up there to put things in order, then, consider the former attributes null and void.

Ordinary men wonder why those of only average intelligence so often rise to the highest levels of power, while highly intelligent people generally do not. They fail to understand that reaching the highest levels of power has nothing to do with admired attributes such as intelligence and competence. The predominant characteristic of those who rise to the highest levels of power is a total disregard for the consequences – including death – that will befall thousands, or hundreds of thousands, or m

It’s easier to donate a few thousands to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It’s simple to seek substitutes for competence—such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.

Biologists will teach us that the survival of the species depends on cooperation, not competition.

I have rare moments of competence.

It is the curse of the competent―not to be called upon.

Professional’ does not necessarily mean that the person so labelled is good or knows what they are doing. In many a case, it merely means that they do whatever that they are a professional at for a living, not as a hobby.

If we agree that the education, employment and retirement continuum is no longer a linear “cradle to grave” construct, then several tools for managing this reality are increasingly proving redundant. Job descriptions used for hiring are one such example. Hiring managers often write these as a reflection of their own experiences, ignoring the fact that we are entering an era where the emphasis should be less on ready competence and more on transferable skills.

It was a myth you couldn't function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me-jumping at pigeons beating from the sidewalk, afflicted with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder practically to the point of spasticity and cerebral palsy-pills were the key to being not only competent, but high-functioning.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Never compete with your master, because that is disrespect to him! You are your only rival, you compete with yourself, go beyond yourself!

Ability does catches my attention, but its a politeness in the person that I remember.

Deep in my heart politeness impresses me more than competence.